September 1, 2025 • 24 mins
Have Gun Will Travel was a popular western radio drama series that ran from 1958 to 1960. It debuted as a television series in 1957 and was one of only a few American television programs that paved the way for a radio version. Although the radio show initially featured stories adapted from television, many of the 106 radio episodes were original stories. The stories follow the adventures of Paladin, played by John Dehner.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
There's something loose on that mountaintop that's bigger than any
man I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And stronger. Before I leave, I intend to find out
what it is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Have gone, We'll travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
(00:54):
a man called Paladino. You will not change your mind,
mister Paladine. You still go.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm afraid so, Hey boy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh, by the way, send a dozen long stemmed roses
to missus Julie Parker and regrets. Oh, do not go there,
mister Paladine. Please?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Why not? Why does this strip bother you so much?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh? I read the newspaper Monster at moon Ridge, lady
bewitched by apparition. Please you don't go there, mister Paladin.
I've already been hired and accepted. I'm leaving right away.
Oh then.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Please.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What have you gotten that yarn?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Please?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, dragon tooth powder. Dragon tooth while here, and while here,
keep you from harm Dragon's tooth powder. It's a very
powerful protection. Your new country has a better formula for
destroying superstition, Hey boy, equal parts of reason and daylight.
(02:09):
But I thank you for the friendship behind the thought. Oh,
then you go, you see mister Vito Bella. That's right,
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fifty nine cents. The Indians have a name for the
high mountain lands back of Placerville.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They call it shadow ground.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Indians have a way of seeing things in the shape
of the piece of land that no white man can see,
so they always bypassive, like the thunder that boil up
against the peaks and roll downs.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But then the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Indians had little use for gold and silver, and the
white men did.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And the white men built.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Their town where a teepeevillage might have been, close to
the top of Moon Ridge. It was after dark and
the sky was heavily overcast when I pulled up in
front of the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
In bowtowns all it right there? I am looking for
the sheriff. Ask me, who are you? My name is Paladin.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, riding in at night, black horse and black trail clothes.
I'm surprised you didn't get your head shot off.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well do you you have to hold that gun on me?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Come onring, who's he?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He's a hobgoblin, Ain't you heard.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
He said Jake Kelly, Mister Pelladin, he carries silver bullets
and he his gun really clean. Something grabbed him on
the top of moon Ridge one night. Oh, sit down
now for you some coffee?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Where are you from, mister Pelladin? San Francisco? Who? It's
a long.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Way are you the fellow? Peter said he was sitting
for about Emily.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He wants to know it's bothering her. I'm gonna try
to find out who are with im, and I'll tell
you what's wrong with Emily. She's Heck, that's what. And
you know what I'm talking true, Darren, If you, if
you'd have a ride up there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And see yourself, Sheriff's got us stay around town.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now, you know that you ain't said put out since
the time you possibly got scattered.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That was a little accident.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Shoe horses run away and folks building into something big.
There ain't nothing nothing far.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh hold, miss Paladin. I was as far from it
as I am from you, and I seen it. The
half man, half bear, and footprints this long a human
at one end cause of the other.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I guess I'll have to see them too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Why don't believe me? All right, when you get to
that Bella place, you ask Emily Beller what carried off?
M Yeah, like you don't as dan here, know, yeah,
he sheriff, and if he admitted there was something up there,
he'd had to go on out after it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Get out of here, Jake, go on, you raise the
old coat, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is there anything valuable up there in minerals grazing lands?
Any reason for someone to scare people away?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Formation ain't right for golden or silver? And Indians didn't
want it, said it was full of spirits.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know, A short time ago, I was feeling superior
to a Chinese friend of mine when he sprinkled dust
on my coat. I forgot that he came by his
superstitions honestly, that he learned them from the cradle. I uh,
I can't find the same excuse for you, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I ain't superstitious. Why at the missiletoe above your door?
Ohweh forgot it from Christmas? I guess there's an old
belief that a wards.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Off evil spirits.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
All right, talent Bella place is north out of town,
the last house on the way to moon Ridge Country.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
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Bella place was run down and listless, with a small
light gleaming in the window and the figure of a
woman seated on the porch. Steps a young woman, dark plane,
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no shoes, stockings, long hair, and the most vacantly staring
eyes I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Good evening, miss Emily Bella.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
It's dark.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, oh, mister Bella, Yes, my name is Paladin.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, mister Paladin, call me. Oh moment the police. Emily. Now,
you promised you tell Papa when you stepped outside. Remember
it's cold here. And when a visitor comes, a big
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girl says.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How do you do? Emily? Very good?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Now you come in the house with us, Emily, you
can go to your room. A dozen years ago, there
was in this valley epidemic took my wife, almost my daughter.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Afterwards, Emily's body grew, but her mind.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She remains a child. Whine please well this epidemic, what
was it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh, we don't know. No doctors here.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
There was a young boy was affected the same way.
People treat him like an animal. They call him names
that kick him until he's a Moldolma. She took him away.
I saw I have to leave too. Bring Emily here
far from the town. The land here is, it's no good,
but we manage.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Those dolls are hers?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
See, she is of an age where toys are pleasant.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
She's fortunate to have you as a father.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I think she's fortunate in other ways. Maybe you don't
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Perhaps I do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
There's nothing shocking ugly about remaining a child the best
age of all. Their world is wonderful, mysterious, half real,
half make believe the world you and I live in,
mister Peller is not always as pleasant.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
For I think you are a wiser man. Mister Bella,
do we drink?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
The newspaper said Emily was this way because of shock,
some unusual experience, a.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Spell cast by the monster of.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A moon ride.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Since that story is untrue, why do you want to
pay me two hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mister Bella?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You telegram said five hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You haven't answered my question.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Mister Paladine, there is something on Moonridge. It took Emily
away from me for a week, and she wishes to
go back to it. I don't want to lose my daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But that week I search for her.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I find her prince and other prints which I will
not describe.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Because half bear, half man.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
When you have heard that, she will not tell me
even her father what kept her there.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But she was not harmed, and she wishes to return
to this thing.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yes, she has tried twice to run away.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Then I think it's time let your daughter go back
to Moonridge, mister Bellen, U three of us will leave
first thing in the morning. The morning was dark and foreboding,
with the threat of rain in the air. Low clouds
hung over the peaks and in the valleys, twisting the
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trees into nil shapes and making the rocks grotesque and
sudden to come upon.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
All very unreal. But the track we.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Came across on the top of Moonridge late that afternoon
was real enough.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Half a man a for a bear, maybe Emily, Mister
Feller to be honest with me, Please what make this spring?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But I don't know, mister bell.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's going to be dark.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
L What is that, I'd say it was a bear? Emily, Heaven,
come on back.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Going down the canyon.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You follow with the horses. I'll try to catch her.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The canyon walls were steep and rocky, and it made
the climb down the treacherous. By the time I was
standing on the floor of the canyon, darkness was coming overhead.
I walked toward what I thought might be the head
of the canyon, only to find the wall of granite
blocking my way.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But no Emily, no.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Sign of Bella, no way out, but something something watching me, something.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Old and bent and.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Tattered clothing witch like in the quick look I had
then gone suddenly, you come back here, all right? I
know whoever you are, listen to this carefully.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I have a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm not going to be frightened away.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Are you there? Can you hear me? I warn you
that I'm going up.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
When I regained consciousness, I was inside an old mind shaft,
a chain on my leg, minus guns. Very real looking
bear was chained across for me. There in the dim light,
filtering back from the opening of the mind shaft, I
saw something moving slowly towards me, something which seemed only
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half human, something old and horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I waited there quiet as the thing came closer. What
do you want with me, babe?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
While you can?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
She had dropped a small sledgehammer before she turned and left.
It took me the rest of the night to found
out the connecting pins so that I could remove the
shackles from my leg. Outside it was morning, bright and clear.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But Bella over here.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh, I've been riding all night.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You seen Emily? No if I found your gun on
the belt out?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, thanks for you learning much.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I have expected to find a new body.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Let me ask you something, Bella. Has anyone?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Has eOne ever been hurt in Moonridge Country here, actually
physically injured? The law law only frightened. Yes, I've been
frightened too, But I'm not hurt, Bella. M I think
I know where Emily is. Where I would say, up there,
beyond that cliff that backs the Ken, the cliff, possibly
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a meadow behind there.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Oh, the trailer would be worse than in Sicily, that
it would fright that a.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Bad rider, and with a little clever discouragement, even a
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
It was a steep trail, but a worthwhile one to
follow because at the end of it there was a
meadow brill into the high sunlight, and there was a
house with a fireplace and smoke coming from a chimney.
Not very mysterious at all. Some more living up pres
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very comfortably.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
I'd saying, look across the metal, Emily, Emily, wait, no, wait.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
For what she may be here, but she's not like
she's in trouble. Bella. Look, there's a boy with her.
Do you recognize him?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Maybe it could be Marie as a boy, the one
I told you was afflicted like Emily.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, the mother and son, the ones they ran out
of town.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I think it's time that we visit her. Huh, there's
no need, Marie.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, I watched you to climb the trail up there.
You have no respect for witches.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But I have a great deal of respect for a
clever woman.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So where else could I take my son? I had
no money. I had to find a place where people
wouldn't ridicule him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Suffered from the same things.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
See, and once we were old friends. Murray, you should
have had faith in the meat.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, I should have sent her away the first time
she wandered up here. But it's just so good to
see children happy together.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Uh. The soil is good up here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm better than below, more sun and more water. Why
talk of it?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Because there's always a man somewhere who won't scare off
like this one. I'm sorry, materialize and apparition on a
broomstick in front of him, and he'll ask it to.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Sweep the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The monster footprints I made half mine, half of bears.
They meant nothing. I've run out of tricks. I've moved before.
We can do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Why move? See?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Why move?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
If I lived here, there would be no man bear track,
no cave to put foolish men in and then lease
him to run frightened shouting foolish things. I think since
I am Amanda, would be a gun in my hand,
and friends would be welcome. Others would not.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
If a man has something to say, he comes right
out and says it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yes, Maria, I think perhaps I like your land, and.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I think I will be going.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I'll expect two hundred dollars to be placed in my
San Francisco account, mister Bella, and I suspect.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That you got more than you bargained for.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
But you will get what you bargain for. Mister five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You have to ride through town, I suppose and talk
to the share.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
No ignorant and prejudice. People like to be deceived and
deserve it when they are. Why confuse them with the truth. Oh,
mister Paladin, you back safe, all in one piece and
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glad to be back.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Hey boy?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Was it bad?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Bad for people who believe in witchcraft? Any messages for me?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh? You saw many message? Let me see. Oh ladies,
send note and say you call on her when you
come back. Another lady san sommoned overa and tell you
not to call on her when you get back. What
else is all well? In that case? Tell me the
name of the lady over there? Hey boy, Oh you saw.
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He's miss Romero from Spain, very new in this country.
Thank you, miss Romero. Yes, my name is Paladin. May
I be of service to you?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Service?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It is the custom for a gentleman to offer his
services to a lady in this land.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
What kind of services any kind.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The lady wishes?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Dining in fine restaurants, the theater, the opera, perhaps a
carriage ride of historical points of the city.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Your heart names it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I like these customs, signor, But isn't such a relationship
brought with possibilities?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It is Senorito, all kinds of possibilities? Shall we begin
with the possibility of dinner? This evening, Have Gun Will Travel?
(23:05):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Roth, is produced stand
directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin
with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
by Gene Roddenberry and adapted for radio by John Dawson.
Featured in the cast were Laurence Dobkin, Virginia, Christine, Jess
Kirkpatrick and Gene.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Bates Hugh Douglas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Speaking join us again next week for Have Gun Will Travel.
There's something loose on that mountaintop that's bigger than any
man I've ever seen.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And stronger. Before I leave, I intend to find out
what it is.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Have gone, We'll travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin.
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, The Carlton Hotel, headquarters of
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a man called Paladino. You will not change your mind,
mister Paladine. You still go.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I'm afraid so, Hey boy.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Oh, by the way, send a dozen long stemmed roses
to missus Julie Parker and regrets. Oh, do not go there,
mister Paladine. Please?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Why not? Why does this strip bother you so much?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh? I read the newspaper Monster at moon Ridge, lady
bewitched by apparition. Please you don't go there, mister Paladin.
I've already been hired and accepted. I'm leaving right away.
Oh then.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Let me.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Please.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
What have you gotten that yarn?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Please?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, dragon tooth powder. Dragon tooth while here, and while here,
keep you from harm Dragon's tooth powder. It's a very
powerful protection. Your new country has a better formula for
destroying superstition, Hey boy, equal parts of reason and daylight.
(02:09):
But I thank you for the friendship behind the thought. Oh,
then you go, you see mister Vito Bella. That's right,
Vito Bella, Bowtown, California. Even if you've had embarrassing dandruff
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Speaker 2 (02:56):
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fifty nine cents. The Indians have a name for the
high mountain lands back of Placerville.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
They call it shadow ground.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Indians have a way of seeing things in the shape
of the piece of land that no white man can see,
so they always bypassive, like the thunder that boil up
against the peaks and roll downs.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
But then the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Indians had little use for gold and silver, and the
white men did.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And the white men built.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Their town where a teepeevillage might have been, close to
the top of Moon Ridge. It was after dark and
the sky was heavily overcast when I pulled up in
front of the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
In bowtowns all it right there? I am looking for
the sheriff. Ask me, who are you? My name is Paladin.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, riding in at night, black horse and black trail clothes.
I'm surprised you didn't get your head shot off.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well do you you have to hold that gun on me?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Come onring, who's he?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Man?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He's a hobgoblin, Ain't you heard.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
He said Jake Kelly, Mister Pelladin, he carries silver bullets
and he his gun really clean. Something grabbed him on
the top of moon Ridge one night. Oh, sit down
now for you some coffee?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Where are you from, mister Pelladin? San Francisco? Who? It's
a long.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Way are you the fellow? Peter said he was sitting
for about Emily.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
He wants to know it's bothering her. I'm gonna try
to find out who are with im, and I'll tell
you what's wrong with Emily. She's Heck, that's what. And
you know what I'm talking true, Darren, If you, if
you'd have a ride up there.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And see yourself, Sheriff's got us stay around town.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Now, you know that you ain't said put out since
the time you possibly got scattered.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That was a little accident.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Shoe horses run away and folks building into something big.
There ain't nothing nothing far.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Oh hold, miss Paladin. I was as far from it
as I am from you, and I seen it. The
half man, half bear, and footprints this long a human
at one end cause of the other.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I guess I'll have to see them too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Why don't believe me? All right, when you get to
that Bella place, you ask Emily Beller what carried off?
M Yeah, like you don't as dan here, know, yeah,
he sheriff, and if he admitted there was something up there,
he'd had to go on out after it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Get out of here, Jake, go on, you raise the
old coat, Sheriff.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Is there anything valuable up there in minerals grazing lands?
Any reason for someone to scare people away?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Formation ain't right for golden or silver? And Indians didn't
want it, said it was full of spirits.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
You know, A short time ago, I was feeling superior
to a Chinese friend of mine when he sprinkled dust
on my coat. I forgot that he came by his
superstitions honestly, that he learned them from the cradle. I uh,
I can't find the same excuse for you, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
I ain't superstitious. Why at the missiletoe above your door?
Ohweh forgot it from Christmas? I guess there's an old
belief that a wards.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Off evil spirits.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
All right, talent Bella place is north out of town,
the last house on the way to moon Ridge Country.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
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Bella place was run down and listless, with a small
light gleaming in the window and the figure of a
woman seated on the porch. Steps a young woman, dark plane,
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no shoes, stockings, long hair, and the most vacantly staring
eyes I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Good evening, miss Emily Bella.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
It's dark.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yes, oh, mister Bella, Yes, my name is Paladin.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Oh, mister Paladin, call me. Oh moment the police. Emily. Now,
you promised you tell Papa when you stepped outside. Remember
it's cold here. And when a visitor comes, a big
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girl says.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
How do you do? Emily? Very good?
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Now you come in the house with us, Emily, you
can go to your room. A dozen years ago, there
was in this valley epidemic took my wife, almost my daughter.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Afterwards, Emily's body grew, but her mind.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
She remains a child. Whine please well this epidemic, what
was it?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh, we don't know. No doctors here.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
There was a young boy was affected the same way.
People treat him like an animal. They call him names
that kick him until he's a Moldolma. She took him away.
I saw I have to leave too. Bring Emily here
far from the town. The land here is, it's no good,
but we manage.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Those dolls are hers?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
See, she is of an age where toys are pleasant.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
She's fortunate to have you as a father.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I think she's fortunate in other ways. Maybe you don't
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Perhaps I do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
There's nothing shocking ugly about remaining a child the best
age of all. Their world is wonderful, mysterious, half real,
half make believe the world you and I live in,
mister Peller is not always as pleasant.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
For I think you are a wiser man. Mister Bella,
do we drink?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
The newspaper said Emily was this way because of shock,
some unusual experience, a.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Spell cast by the monster of.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
A moon ride.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Since that story is untrue, why do you want to
pay me two hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Mister Bella?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You telegram said five hundred.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You haven't answered my question.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Mister Paladine, there is something on Moonridge. It took Emily
away from me for a week, and she wishes to
go back to it. I don't want to lose my daughter.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
But that week I search for her.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
I find her prince and other prints which I will
not describe.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Because half bear, half man.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
When you have heard that, she will not tell me
even her father what kept her there.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But she was not harmed, and she wishes to return
to this thing.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yes, she has tried twice to run away.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Then I think it's time let your daughter go back
to Moonridge, mister Bellen, U three of us will leave
first thing in the morning. The morning was dark and foreboding,
with the threat of rain in the air. Low clouds
hung over the peaks and in the valleys, twisting the
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trees into nil shapes and making the rocks grotesque and
sudden to come upon.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
All very unreal. But the track we.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Came across on the top of Moonridge late that afternoon
was real enough.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Half a man a for a bear, maybe Emily, Mister
Feller to be honest with me, Please what make this spring?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
But I don't know, mister bell.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
It's going to be dark.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
L What is that, I'd say it was a bear? Emily, Heaven,
come on back.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Going down the canyon.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
You follow with the horses. I'll try to catch her.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The canyon walls were steep and rocky, and it made
the climb down the treacherous. By the time I was
standing on the floor of the canyon, darkness was coming overhead.
I walked toward what I thought might be the head
of the canyon, only to find the wall of granite
blocking my way.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
But no Emily, no.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Sign of Bella, no way out, but something something watching me, something.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Old and bent and.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Tattered clothing witch like in the quick look I had
then gone suddenly, you come back here, all right? I
know whoever you are, listen to this carefully.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I have a gun.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I'm not going to be frightened away.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Are you there? Can you hear me? I warn you
that I'm going up.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
When I regained consciousness, I was inside an old mind shaft,
a chain on my leg, minus guns. Very real looking
bear was chained across for me. There in the dim light,
filtering back from the opening of the mind shaft, I
saw something moving slowly towards me, something which seemed only
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half human, something old and horrible.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I waited there quiet as the thing came closer. What
do you want with me, babe?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
While you can?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
She had dropped a small sledgehammer before she turned and left.
It took me the rest of the night to found
out the connecting pins so that I could remove the
shackles from my leg. Outside it was morning, bright and clear.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
But Bella over here.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Oh, I've been riding all night.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
You seen Emily? No if I found your gun on
the belt out?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, thanks for you learning much.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I have expected to find a new body.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Let me ask you something, Bella. Has anyone?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Has eOne ever been hurt in Moonridge Country here, actually
physically injured? The law law only frightened. Yes, I've been
frightened too, But I'm not hurt, Bella. M I think
I know where Emily is. Where I would say, up there,
beyond that cliff that backs the Ken, the cliff, possibly
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a meadow behind there.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Oh, the trailer would be worse than in Sicily, that
it would fright that a.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Bad rider, and with a little clever discouragement, even a
good rider.
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
It was a steep trail, but a worthwhile one to
follow because at the end of it there was a
meadow brill into the high sunlight, and there was a
house with a fireplace and smoke coming from a chimney.
Not very mysterious at all. Some more living up pres
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very comfortably.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
I'd saying, look across the metal, Emily, Emily, wait, no, wait.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
For what she may be here, but she's not like
she's in trouble. Bella. Look, there's a boy with her.
Do you recognize him?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Maybe it could be Marie as a boy, the one
I told you was afflicted like Emily.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes, the mother and son, the ones they ran out
of town.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
I think it's time that we visit her. Huh, there's
no need, Marie.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, I watched you to climb the trail up there.
You have no respect for witches.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
But I have a great deal of respect for a
clever woman.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
So where else could I take my son? I had
no money. I had to find a place where people
wouldn't ridicule him.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Suffered from the same things.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
See, and once we were old friends. Murray, you should
have had faith in the meat.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, I should have sent her away the first time
she wandered up here. But it's just so good to
see children happy together.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Uh. The soil is good up here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I'm better than below, more sun and more water. Why
talk of it?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Because there's always a man somewhere who won't scare off
like this one. I'm sorry, materialize and apparition on a
broomstick in front of him, and he'll ask it to.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Sweep the floor.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
The monster footprints I made half mine, half of bears.
They meant nothing. I've run out of tricks. I've moved before.
We can do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Why move? See?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Why move?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
If I lived here, there would be no man bear track,
no cave to put foolish men in and then lease
him to run frightened shouting foolish things. I think since
I am Amanda, would be a gun in my hand,
and friends would be welcome. Others would not.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
If a man has something to say, he comes right
out and says it.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yes, Maria, I think perhaps I like your land, and.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I think I will be going.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I'll expect two hundred dollars to be placed in my
San Francisco account, mister Bella, and I suspect.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That you got more than you bargained for.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
But you will get what you bargain for. Mister five hundred.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
You have to ride through town, I suppose and talk
to the share.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
No ignorant and prejudice. People like to be deceived and
deserve it when they are. Why confuse them with the truth. Oh,
mister Paladin, you back safe, all in one piece and
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glad to be back.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Hey boy?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Was it bad?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Bad for people who believe in witchcraft? Any messages for me?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Oh? You saw many message? Let me see. Oh ladies,
send note and say you call on her when you
come back. Another lady san sommoned overa and tell you
not to call on her when you get back. What
else is all well? In that case? Tell me the
name of the lady over there? Hey boy, Oh you saw.
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He's miss Romero from Spain, very new in this country.
Thank you, miss Romero. Yes, my name is Paladin. May
I be of service to you?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Service?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It is the custom for a gentleman to offer his
services to a lady in this land.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
What kind of services any kind.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
The lady wishes?
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Dining in fine restaurants, the theater, the opera, perhaps a
carriage ride of historical points of the city.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Your heart names it.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I like these customs, signor, But isn't such a relationship
brought with possibilities?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It is Senorito, all kinds of possibilities? Shall we begin
with the possibility of dinner? This evening, Have Gun Will Travel?
(23:05):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Roth, is produced stand
directed by Norman McDonald and stars John Dayner as Paladin
with Ben Wright as hey Boy. Tonight's story was written
by Gene Roddenberry and adapted for radio by John Dawson.
Featured in the cast were Laurence Dobkin, Virginia, Christine, Jess
Kirkpatrick and Gene.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Bates Hugh Douglas.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Speaking join us again next week for Have Gun Will Travel.
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